The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
